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For like five years now, I have been experimenting with creating my own beauty products from all-natural ingredients. I’ve gone through failures and successes, and now I have recipes that are my go-tos: I love them and use them all the time! The best part is feeling really accomplished and wholesome(?) and knowing that I didn’t have to rely on BIG BRANDS to get a glow-y glow. I’ll show you how, too!

Lip Butter

Here’s a li’l somethin’ that I like to whip up for the love of my lips. Fun fact: I’M USING IT AS I TYPE THIS RN!

What you’ll need

One and a half teaspoons of grapeseed oil

One and a half teaspoons of beeswax

One and a half teaspoons of avocado butter

One and a half teaspoons of macadamia butter

Three-quarters of a teaspoon of honey

An empty, clean lip-balm tube or another tiny, clean container with a lid

Optional: Essential oils! I used 10 drops of lemon oil and 15 drops of vanilla essential oil for this. Some essential oils can irritate skin, so make sure the oil you pick, if you decide to use one, is safe to put on your bod.

How to do it:

Step One

Measure out your grapeseed oil and beeswax into a small, microwave-safe dish. Heat your oil and beeswax mixture for 30 seconds, then check to see how much it has melted. Does it look like the bottom pic? If not, you will need to heat it for 15 to 30 more seconds. YOU ARE GONNA NEED AN OVEN MITT TO TAKE THIS OUT OF THE MICROWAVE ’CAUSE IT’LL BE REAL HOT!

Step Two

Quickly measure out your avocado butter and macadamia butter, and add them to the hot mixture you just took out of the microwave. Stir the butters in until they melt completely. If the mix begins to thicken, just put it in the microwave for 15 to 30 more seconds until it becomes liquid-y again.

Step Three

Sit tight for a couple minutes and wait for the mixture to begin to coagulate. You’ll know when that’s happening when the edges of the liquid begin to thicken like so:

Step Four

Measure out your honey and drop it in the mixture. Stir it in quickly, until it is one with the liquid. This is where you can also add essential oils for a nice scent.

Step Five

Go time! Once the mix is completely blended, use a clean pipette or eye dropper to fill your lip-balm tube or other container such as an empty, cleaned mint tin, like an Altoids tin. (When filling a container or tin, which tend to have wider mouths than lip-balm tubes, you can usually use a spoon to fill it instead of a pipette or an eyedropper.)

WHOOPEE! You’ve just created your very own glorious lip balm! Do you feel proud? You should!

I wish these did not contain beeswax, I am merely a vegan trying to craft.

deliamightbeamermaidMay 27th, 20155:17 PM

this source has a lot of different vegan alternatives. good luck!

AlysonMay 27th, 20156:18 PM

just use soy wax instead!

LeavesThatAreGreenMay 27th, 20159:23 AM

OMG this is exactly what I’ve been waiting for! As tillybee noted, they contain beeswax — is there a good replacement, anyone?

MegWMay 27th, 20151:53 PM

It looks like candelilla wax is a vegan alternative.

AlysonMay 27th, 20156:17 PM

yes, soy wax is great and I think can be substituted in the same amounts. I believe the rule with candelilla/carnauba wax is that you use half the amount to make the substitution

sophbloger16May 27th, 20151:55 PM

I love this and I can’t wait to try it out,but I have no clue where I would get beeswax! Any ideas? Also, on the lotion tutorial, you were talking about something you said “do not free”. Did you mean fret,or something else.

Lena SingerMay 27th, 20154:13 PM

We did mean “fret”! Thank you for the heads up.

glittercatMay 27th, 20155:13 PM

SO COOL! I would love to make my own signature scent :)

starsinyourheartMay 27th, 20155:15 PM

Love these! Super excited to try the coffee scrub and I have probably spent half my life wages on lip balm so should probably try that one too

diyanaMay 27th, 20158:35 PM

Love the scrub idea! if you don’t have time/ingredients to make one to exfoliate your lips with then i’d also recommend using a toothbrush (preferably not the same one you use for your teeth), works amazingly well!

diyanaMay 27th, 20158:37 PM

question: do you guys find that using oil-based products gets your shower all gross? in the past when i’ve made my own scrubs i’ve had trouble rinsing them off because they usually get my shower all greasy.

AlysonMay 28th, 20158:23 AM

I haven’t found a problem with it. The way I do it is turn the water off, scrub, then wash it off for about two minutes, which should get a lot of the remains and oil down the drain

alxwxMay 28th, 201512:30 PM

do you have any substitutes for honey? these look so great!

AlysonMay 28th, 20156:44 PM

there isn’t a sub for honey, but its not totally necessary for the lip balm. it acts as an added benefit

interestingrosieMay 29th, 20157:02 PM

I remember my dad doing an activity night in our youth group about making natural beauty goodies, I can remember one consisted of putting porridge oats and maybe milk and something else into a paper bag, shaking it and then using it as a face mask, even though really you’ve just put raw porridge on your face.

There’s also a v simple body scrub of granulated sugar and sunflower oil

anixstarJune 29th, 20159:42 PM

So trying that coffee scrub! I always have difficulty with scrub recipes :( but this sounds really interesting

xx

OneinaJune 30th, 20159:55 PM

So cool.
I’m defiantly making the perfume <3
The directions seem really easy to follow and the Line characters are just perfect :P